THE IMMORTAL FIRE FISH: How an ‘Underwhelming’ Pal is Soloing Palworld 1.0’s Hardest Level 80 Raid
Palworld 1.0 Players Are Melting The Impossible Level 80 Ultra Raid Using Only ONE Underwhelming “Fish” Pal! 😱🔥
While mega-guilds are still throwing armies of 15 perfectly bred Dragons at Bellanoir Libero and wiping, a top theorycrafter just exposed a broken fire-nuke build that lets a single Gangler Ignis solo both phases of the raid completely alone…
Is this point-blank “Volcanic Rain” exploit the absolute new meta, or will Pocketpair nerf this immortal life-steal combo? Tap the link below to see the exact build before the developers patch it! 👇
In the punishing endgame of Palworld version 1.0, the Bellanoir Libero Ultra Raid (Level 80) is widely considered the ultimate gear-check. Boasting massive health pools, devastating area-of-effect (AoE) lasers, and a brutal two-phase elemental transition, the standard community strategy has involved deploying 15 perfectly maxed-out Dragon-type Pals just to survive the timer.
However, the raiding meta has just been turned completely upside down.
A prominent theorycrafter and content creator known as Palworld Raids has published undeniable video evidence proving that the impossible Level 80 raid can be completely soloed by a single player riding one of the game’s most historically overlooked creatures: the fiery fish Pal, Gangler Ignis.
By combining newly introduced passive skills with a highly aggressive, point-blank combat strategy, this “underwhelming” fish has been transformed into an unkillable raid god, shattering everything the community thought they knew about endgame combat.
Here is an inside look at the “Immortal Gangler Ignis” build, the mechanics behind its devastating damage output, and how it is redefining the Palworld 1.0 meta.
The Build: Engineering an Immortal Fish
Prior to the 1.0 update, Gangler Ignis was largely dismissed by the competitive community. While its unique Fire/Water typing offered interesting coverage, it lacked the raw base stats of legendary dragons like Jetragon or the sheer utility of endgame staples like Frostallion.
To overcome this, Palworld Raids engineered a highly specific, defensive-oriented build that turns the Pal into a self-sustaining tank. The magic lies in four precise Passive Skills:
Diamond Body: A massive flat boost to the Pal’s Defense, ensuring Gangler Ignis can survive direct hits from Bellanoir’s notoriously lethal laser sweeps.
Serenity: A crucial cooldown reduction passive, allowing the Pal to cycle its highest-damage abilities with unprecedented speed.
Eternal Flame: A powerful elemental modifier that significantly scales up the damage of Fire-type attacks.
Immortality (The Key): Introduced in recent updates, this passive grants the Pal a 5% Life Steal on all damage dealt.
“I bred another Gangler Ignis, this one with Diamond Body, Serenity, Eternal Flame, and Immortality, and it’s actually tanky enough to work with Bellanoir,” the creator explained in his breakdown.
By combining sky-high defense with aggressive Life Steal, the Gangler Ignis doesn’t need a player to heal it or swap it out. As long as it continues to deal damage, it continuously regenerates its own health bar, effectively making it immortal.
The Strategy: The “Underbelly Nuke”
While having a tanky Pal is essential, surviving a Level 80 Ultra Raid is only half the battle. The raid has a strict timer, meaning the player must output astronomical DPS (Damage Per Second) to secure the kill.
To achieve this, the player utilizes Gangler Ignis as an active mount, wielding two specific active skills: Volcanic Rain and Thunder Rail.
The strategy, dubbed by viewers as the “Underbelly Nuke,” requires nerves of steel. Rather than keeping distance and shooting from afar—the standard survival tactic against Bellanoir—the player must ride Gangler Ignis directly underneath the raid boss’s character model.
The player waits patiently for Bellanoir Libero to begin winding up an attack animation. Because Palworld’s boss animations lock the enemy in place, the player uses this split-second window to unleash a point-blank Volcanic Rain.
“The principle of it is to get under the boss, and as soon as you see her launch an attack… you’re going to trade with her,” demonstrated Palworld Raids. “And then the Volcanic Rain is going to go through and it’s going to leech all our life back.”
Because Volcanic Rain fires multiple fiery projectiles in a concentrated area, casting it directly underneath the massive hitbox of Bellanoir guarantees that every single projectile connects. The resulting burst damage is staggering. More importantly, the simultaneous multi-hits trigger the Immortality Life Steal passive dozens of times in a single second.
Even if Bellanoir’s attack lands, the player and the Gangler Ignis instantly heal the damage back through the sheer volume of Life Steal generated by the point-blank nuke. It is a high-stakes damage trade that the player wins every single time.
Phase 2 Obliteration: Melting the Ice
The true terror of the Bellanoir Libero Ultra Raid is her Phase 2 transition. Upon depleting her initial health bar, she sheds her Dark-typing and reincarnates as a devastating Ice-type boss, simultaneously fully healing herself.
For standard raid parties relying on Dragons, this is a nightmare scenario, as Ice attacks deal super-effective damage to Dragon-types, instantly wiping out the player’s 15-Pal army.
For Gangler Ignis, Phase 2 is an execution.
Because Gangler Ignis is utilizing Fire-type attacks (boosted by the Eternal Flame passive), it deals massive super-effective damage against Bellanoir’s new Ice form.
“It really got demolished on the second phase,” the creator noted. “Four perfect Volcanic Rains landed in the second phase is enough to kill the Ultra version.”
The damage scaling is so mathematically broken that the video creator admitted to missing multiple attacks due to being “distracted on a phone call,” yet still easily cleared the Phase 2 health bar with time to spare. The point-blank Volcanic Rain simply shreds through the Level 80 boss’s defenses, turning the hardest phase of the game into a trivial encounter.
The Future of Raid Mechanics: The Fire Meta
The discovery of the Gangler Ignis solo strategy is currently sending shockwaves through Palworld Discord servers and Reddit forums.
Players who previously spent weeks breeding “perfect” Dark-countering teams are now abandoning their projects to farm Gangler Ignis eggs. The implications of this build extend far beyond just Bellanoir Libero.
As pointed out in the guide, this specific Gangler Ignis setup is now theoretically the best raid mount in the entire game against any boss that does not inherently resist Fire damage.
Zenar & Hartalis: Players are already theorizing that the Underbelly Nuke strategy will completely trivialize these massive bosses, as their large hitboxes make them incredibly susceptible to point-blank Volcanic Rains.
Blazamut Ryu: While the legendary Fire boss inherently resists Volcanic Rain in his first phase, players note that his Phase 2 transition leaves him vulnerable, meaning Gangler Ignis can still be utilized as a late-fight executioner.
“If you have some raid Pals to distract, you can just get under her with the Gangler Ignis and obliterate her,” concluded the creator. “This video is basically proof of concept… this now turns into the best raid mount.”
Will Pocketpair Intervene?
As with any major meta-breaking discovery, the community is already holding its breath in anticipation of a developer response.
Pocketpair has a long history of monitoring community exploits. During Early Access, they routinely patched out unintended behaviors, such as the infamous Tower Boss capture glitch and the Pal Sphere launch physics.
However, the Gangler Ignis strategy sits in a gray area. It does not utilize any game-breaking bugs, clipping errors, or memory leaks. It strictly relies on intentional game mechanics—Life Steal scaling, animation locking, and super-effective elemental damage—pushed to their absolute mathematical limits.
Whether the developers decide to nerf the Immortality passive, widen Bellanoir’s point-blank hit detection, or simply allow the “Immortal Fire Fish” to reign supreme remains to be seen.
But until the patch notes drop, the most dangerous creature in the Palpagos Islands isn’t a legendary dragon or a dark goddess. It’s a fish with a bad attitude and a Volcanic Rain.
